The Transducer Block - TC-Helicon VoiceWorksPlus User Manual

THE TRANSDUCER BLOCK

Chapter Overview
The edit screens and usage tips for the Transducer
block are discussed in this chapter.The Transducer is a
block that helps create so many of the megaphone and
telephone effects in popular music, as well as
replicating the vintage audio quality of older audio
effects and recordings.Within the Transducer there is a
configurable distortion block with internal filtering and
curves, as well as a bandwidth block, which emulates
the frequency response of various audio devices like
phones and radios.
The Transducer is a "serial" effect which means that
any signal going through it is typically meant to lose its
dry component.
The FX button on the front panel will engage and
disengage the Transducer effect along with the Reverb,
Delay and μMod effects.
It is essential to have your input levels set correctly in
order for the distortion component of the Transducer
block to work. Setting the input level too low will
result in less or no distortion than is intended.
Transducer editing menus T0-T4
T0:Transducer insertion point
In order to hear the effect, you must choose to apply
the Transducer effect to either the dry voice path, the
Harmony or Modeling path or on the master output.
Applying the Transducer to the master output will
effect all Harmony/Modeling processing and the
Reverb, Delay and μMod effects. Any stereo signals
entering the Transducer will be summed to mono.
T1:Transducer Style
Here you can choose from on of the twenty-one pre-
configured styles that bring together all of the
distortion and filtering effects possible with the
Transducer. You can also choose No Style and edit the
parameters in the following screens to your liking.
T2: PreGain PostGain
These controls apply only when a distortion type is
selected in the following screen. These act similarly to
a guitar distortion pedal or an amplifier with input gain
and master level controls.
PreGain: Boosts or attenuates the amount of
distortion for the distortion type selected in menu T3.
PostGain:When you adjust the PreGain parameter, just
like a guitar amplifier, the overall level of the effect goes
up and down. Use this control to adjust the output
level of the Transducer block to properly balance the
current preset with the others.
T3: Distortion type and amount
Distort Type:These are pre-configured distortion styles
that range from Overdrive through Saturation and
Distortion and finally Fuzz. Each has a unique character.
Though these styles have no direct controls like Delay
or Reverb for example, you can add or reduce the
distortion component (T2) and apply filtering (T4) to
customize them.
Amt: Adjusts the amount of distortion for the current
distortion style. This is not the same as the Pre and
Post Gain controls which work on level adjustjment.
The Distortion Amount control adjusts the algorithmic
distortion curve that you can further trim with the Pre
and Post Gain controls.
Low-BandLimit-Hi: (Low and high band filters) These
are attenuation-only filters that allow you to roll off
high and/or low frequencies to simulate radios,
telephones and the like. When the Transducer is set
with no distortion style, these can act as a filters for
any of the audio paths selected in the TransducerInsert
parameter.
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